Rapper Quando Rondo Pleads Guilty in Federal Drug Case

Savannah rapper Quando Rondo pleaded guilty to federal drug charges on Tuesday. In December, the 25-year-old rapper was arrested and indicted on charges of conspiring with others to possess and distribute drugs, which included methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine, and marijuana. The artist, born Tyquian Terrel Bowman, pled guilty to a single count of conspiracy to possess and distribute marijuana, the Associated Press reports. He is set to be sentenced on Dec 12. 

Outside of the federal courthouse, Bowman expressed contrition to reporters, stating, “I really want to give an apology to the city of Savannah. And I want to give an apology to my family and friends, loved ones, and most of all my daughters for taking all my family and all my loved ones through this stressful point.”

Bowman is still facing state gun and drug charges in Chatham County (GA) Superior Court. In February, a judge ruled to place his case on an indefinite pause pending the resolution of his federal case. 

The two cases are the latest for an artist who has faced previous accusations of being gang-affiliated. In 2017, he was convicted of possession of a firearm for a minor and sentenced to probation. District attorneys sought to revoke his probation in 2019, accusing him of being involved in street gang activity, but the petition was then dropped. 

Bowman is signed to Atlantic Records through Youngboy Never Broke Again’s eponymous label imprint. Last March, he released his Recovery album through both labels and his own Quando Rondo LLC.

In 2022 he talked to Rolling Stone about trying to change his mentality, noting, “I think about changing all the time, but man, a nigga can’t change because people don’t want a nigga to change. It’s like the respect and my rep going to leave if a nigga change.”